Garden Answers

Garden Answers is a vibrant and inspiring gardening magazine filled with ingenious design ideas and exciting plant combinations guaranteed to make your garden beautiful.

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Celebrate LUSH & EXOTIC STYLE • In this holiday month, fall in love with sultry, jungly gardens, whether that’s by visiting a spectacular sub-tropical garden open to the public or investing in large-leaved hardy plants and fiery flowers to conjure a taste of the tropics here in the UK

Be inspired by... • Plants, books, events & buys for the month ahead

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Holiday Vibe • Sit back and soak up summer with these tropical-inspired garden accessories

Wish list • These all-a-glow plants are new in catalogues

Recognise these transparent plants?

QUIZ ANSWERS

Best garden contenders

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30-minute makes

Sizzling hot BORDER BEAUTIES • Turn up the heat and add spice to your garden with late-flowering summer perennials, says Naomi Slade

Enter theJungle • Ever wanted to escape to an exotic haven just outside your back door? In our new series we explore simple ways to transform your garden style, starting with the jungle look

Jungle notebook

Fall in love with LAVENDER • These fragrant shrubby perennials tick every box for both pollinators and people, says Sue Fisher

SUTTONS

August • With gardens growing abundantly it’s time to harvest seeds and take cuttings while providing some TLC to encourage many more weeks of colour and interest

COLLECT RIPE SEEDS • Increase plant stocks for free – and choose where they grow!

Plant a LATE SUMMER POT

Plant a summer bed with SWAGGER • Give attention-grabbing perennials room to breathe and shine

High-rise habitat • Help boost nature – even in a small garden – with a tree, says Adrian Thomas

“It’s all about the foliage for me” • A hidden garden in a Lancashire town is an escape to a paradise of lush planting. Owner Tez Donnelly tells us how it’s done

Garden answers

“I like to see contrasts, in colour and textures” • Carefully selected foliage plants give an illusion of maturity in this recently-planted Lincolnshire garden, enhanced by colourful flowers

HISTORIC & HEAVENLY • With a backdrop of dramatic historic architecture, The Merton Borders at Oxford Botanic Garden are an arresting sight in August

Life on the VEG PATCH • Alice Whitehead dishes up harvests and hummus in this month’s diary from her Northampton allotment

Bottle herb planters • Upcycle empty plastic bottles to create a novel hanging herb garden

Ask the Experts • Our experts will help you get the best from your garden

Design Solutions • Make memorable evenings with luxury seating and night-scented flowers, says Sara Edwards

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JUMP into garden boots & shoes • Geoff Hodge puts his best feet forward and looks at what we should be wearing on them in the garden

Over to you!

Carpet the ground with DRIFT ROSES • Low-growing roses provide months of colour

ACER PALMATUM ‘TAYLOR’ • Bring colour and interest to your garden with beautiful Japanese maples

Win these gardening goodies! • Enter this month’s crossword and you could win 1 of 2 pairs of Buckingham Leisure Boots worth £59.99 each! Entry form is overleaf

“I asked my neighbours for photos of the local wildlife” • Columnist Rupert Paul galvanises locals to spot and record critters and plants in and around their gardens